It Turns Out Working From Home Isn’t Just a COVID-19 Thing

One of the many enduring memories of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic will be the throngs of American workers who were forced to transition from their usual office setting to a makeshift work-from-home scenario. For me, and many others, it was a sometimes-choppy voyage through unchartered waters.

But new numbers suggest that a portion of the nation’s workforce was already well ahead of the remote office concept.

But as big as those numbers are, there’s a much larger contingent of employees that want the perks of a home office.

Eight-in-ten of those surveyed said they want to be able to work from home from time to time and more than a third say they’d leave their current ‘office’ job for a position at another company that offered the work-at-home option. The average remote worker saved about $7,000 annually by not having to go to the office every day.

And it’s not just the employees that are seeing a benefit from working remotely.